1) Pick of the lemongrass
Every morning, we will receive from the distributor of fresh lemon grass that has become our permanent distribution. At customs, we will select a distributor that has a lemongrass field can provide a lot amount. Approximately 168 kg of grass that we received a total of eight sacks that weighs 20 kg each. In addition, we receive this grass at 8 am before the start of work. After that, we'll keep the grass in a large freezer to store large amount of grass.
2) Clean all the dirt on the lemongrass
After receiving the grass from the suppliers, our employees will make the cleaning process. We have five employees who will perform this task. They will remove the root, impurities and contaminants such as sand and waste. This aims to ensure that all impurities removed grass. In this stage, our staff will put all the lemongrass into a large container filled with water for easy cleaning.
3) Lemongrass are been groped according to grades
Next, we will do the grading on the grass. In other word, our staff will select and discard lemon grass quality is not good quality. We select three workers who are trained to perform these tasks. Lemongrass is good and the quality will be brought to the next. The aim is to ensure good production and processing.
4) Drying process include others raw material
At this stage, we will make the process of drying grass and all the raw materials such as cloves, dried turmeric, fennel seeds, coriander, cloves, white pepper, and cinnamon. All of these materials in the dry according to the quantity specified to ensure the best production. Two of our employees will perform this task sets the temperature of 300° Celsius for the horrible all these ingredients for 30 minutes. This is because in order to facilitate the process at the next level.
5) The lemongrass will be crush
Next is, all the materials such as dried grass and other raw materials will be blended. Initially, three of our staff will blend these materials to the rough ground to a small size and ease the process further. After that, the material remains soft ground three times to make a finer powder. Machinery used to work fine or coarse grind chosen according to the level.
6) Additional ingredient such as preservative and coloring
The sixth process is the addition of other ingredients such as preservatives and dyes. Preservatives will allow lemongrass powder last longer than ordinary lemongrass. In addition, dyes that we use does not eliminate the original color of lemon grass powder lemon color, but appeared more attract customers to buy later. In fact, appear to be dull. Phase of this process, only two workers to perform these tasks.
7) Evaporation process, such as killing bacteria
Next, two of our employees will perform the duties of this evaporation. Machines are used to set 100° Celsius and take time about 15 minutes. It aims to remove the bacteria found in these materials. Lemongrass powder production process is the final process to ensure the bacteria that may cause long-lasting lemon grass powder is not contaminated and will kill to keep it clean completely.
8) Packing process
Subsequently is the packaging process. These processes include such processes include powder into the bottle, close the bottle with the cap is appropriate; enter the label on the bottle and the bottle. Affix a label that we have used ingredient, nutrients, logo and date of expiry. A total of two workers will make the process of admission into the box because another process is done by machine.
9) Products stored properly and send to supplier
The last process is products stored properly and send to supplier. At first, after the product has been processed, it will be stored in a secure place and delivered to retailers in a timely manner. Two workers consist of permanent and part time workers will perform these tasks. We will do delivery every two weeks up the van that had been prepared. There have about 14 boxes that can meet the space van.
